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Whoever took a look at your average day in Manhattan and proclaimed: "Thank god there are so many cars and so much traffic noise here!"?

The answer is no one. No one ever wanted any of these features.



Millions of people are willing to spend a lot of money to be there.


Because of, or in spite of?

Consider the following: if everything else stayed the same, but all traffic was removed from Manhattan, would there be a net increase or decrease in population from migration?


It's very speculative, but I'd say a decrease because people couldn't get things done that require driving or are easier to do that way.




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